The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) has moved its annual to 7-11 November from its earlier date of 25-29 July. The association’s annual event brings together over 7,000 business travel professionals from more than 50 countries worldwide.

It moved the event in response to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic across the US and the strict travel restrictions now in place that would impact on both domestic and international attendance.

Scott Solombrino, chief operating officer and executive director of GBTA said: “This is the first time in GBTA’s 52-year history of the convention that we have had to reschedule our signature event. Our hope is that the pandemic will pass within the next few months and we will be able to resume our normal activities. But if that is not the case, we may need to push convention back further.”

GBTA has a membership of 9,000-plus that manage more than USD 345 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually.